Sprinzel's Sebring Sprite Coupe Debuts At The 1961 Racing Car Show in London
Before developing the Sebring Sprite coupe, John Sprinzel had founded the prominent tuning firm Speedwell, in which future world champion Graham Hill would subsequently play a major role. Sprinzel left Speedwell at the end of 1959 to set up the Healey Speed Equipment Division for Donald Healey, but not before developing a sleek, alloy-bodied Sprite coupe, the Speedwell GT, designed by aerodynamicist Frank Costin and built by Williams & Pritchard. Leaving the Healeys to set up his own tuning and race preparation concern at Lancaster Mews in December 1960, Sprinzel launched his Williams & Pritchard-bodied coupe to immediate acclaim at the Racing Car Show in London. Sprinzel Sebring Sprites were soon being built for racers Ian Walker, Cyril Simson, Andrew Hedges and Chris Williams, and for BMC works rally driver David Seigle-Morris. Sprinzel's personal Sebring Sprite bore the registration number PMO 200, and he campaigned the car at Sebring and in international rallies as well as races throughout the 1961 season, culminating in an outright win in the Targa Rusticana rally at the beginning of 1962.
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